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The first Steam Machines will be release this month in America, with prices ranging from £300 to an eye-watering £3,600.

Although there’s no more next generation consoles to be released this year Steam and Half-Life maker Valve will be overseeing the launch of the first Steam Machine as early as this month, in the US at least.

The first of the custom PCs to be released will be sold by PC manufacturer Digital Storm, with a price tag of $1,899 (£1,159). Although that’s only an entry figure and the brochure price below for the ‘Digital Storm Bolt II’ is actually $2,584 (£1,577).

As you can imagine you’re getting a state-of-the-art PC for that, with Digital Storm insisting, ‘We’re taking aim at the high end of the market, targeting consumers that demand the best possible gaming experience and who are looking for a PC capable of playing any title on their new 4K display.’

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The idea behind Steam Machines though is that any manufacturer can make their own version at different prices and with different hardware, although they all use SteamOS instead of Windows and utilise Valve’s own Steam controller.

Whether Valve themselves will release their own Steam Machine is still up in the air, with boss Gabe Newell saying only that, ‘We’re gonna make that decision as we go along’.

The list of Steam Machines below is from a brochure distributed at the CES event in Las Vegas and includes all the known manufacturers so far except for Alienware (whose hardware is pictured above) and Maingear.

That’s unfortunate though as Alienware is probably the only company out of the list that anyone outside the US has ever heard of, so it’s unclear which if any of the following will be released in the UK.